But the exterior sheen conceals a growing sense of anomie, compounded by swelling unemployment and material expectations fed by rising educational standards.
The News tablets will come loaded with material from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a K-12 curriculum developed by a broad coalition of education experts and supported by most states.
These days I see America identified more and more with material things, less and less with spiritual standards.
In fact, standards for NORM (naturally occurring radioactive material) have been observed for years.
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As the late, great economist Julian Simon demonstrated (both with clear economic logic and an unassailable mountain of data), there is a long-run tendency for standards of living to improve and for material scarcity to relax as a constraint rather than tighten.
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In a material sense, even manual laborers are phenomenally wealthy by historical standards.
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Investors should be told because not only does such activity impact upon the investment results they receive, but it also is material to a determination of whether a manager maintains the ethical standards the investor seeks.
Broadcasters are also expected to apply "generally accepted standards" to provide adequate protection for members of the public from offensive material, and must ensure that potentially offensive material is justified by the context.
While the new GED will incorporate tougher material by January 2014, the other two firms will begin slowly phasing in the new standards then, addressing worries from state officials that students won't have time to become familiar with harder questions designed to conform with the new academic benchmarks, the Common Core State Standards.
The Conference also agreed that media organisations and professional journalists should establish Codes of Conduct to set and maintain standards for newsroom practice as these would reduce the risk of publication of potentially defamatory material.
Because of those changes, the groups that wrote the national science standards on which Kansas had based its version now says the state can't use its copyrighted material.
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